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But in acknowledging your powers over something unseen, I must explain to you the incredulity I at first felt, which I believe annoyed you. I was made sceptical on one occasion, by attending a so-called spiritual seance, where they tried to convince me of the truth of table-turning " Heliobas laughed softly, still holding my hands.
But even they, I think, might be "above it," in which case the musical instruments, tin trumpets, tambourines, and concertinas, disdained by the immaterial, must be manipulated by the material! And this rule with regard to table-turning, the manipulation of musical instruments, etc., equally applies to materialisation.
The unfortunate horse, who is almost voiceless, has only one way in which to express himself: a clumsy hoof, which was not created to put thought into words. It became necessary, therefore, to contrive, as in table-turning, a special alphabet, in which each letter is designated by a certain number of blows struck by the right foot and the left.
Lionel Varick was no mean actor himself, and it was as connoisseur, as well as expert, that he admired the gift when it was practised by others. Spiritualism, table-turning, and fortune-telling he bracketed them all together in his own mind had never interested him in the least. But he realized dimly what a wonderful chance this new fashionable craze for so he regarded it gives to the charlatan.
After getting through all her daily duties she would join with zest in our evening readings and music, for it is not the least of the duties of a good housewife to make real the gaiety of the leisure hour. Some evenings I would join the girls in a table-turning seance. We would place our fingers on a small tea table and it would go capering about the room.
They will make each other believe in spirit-rapping, table-turning, the mesmeric fluid, electro-biology; that they saw the lion on Northumberland House wagging his tail; that witches have been seen riding in the air; that the Jews had poisoned the wells; that but why go further into the sad catalogue of human absurdities, and the crimes which have followed them?
"She and her husband were here last night, and they looked rather bored when I suggested table-turning. I wonder if anything has happened to put her off it?" "What do you think could have?" asked Georgie with Riseholme alacrity. "Georgie, do you really believe in the Princess and Pocky?" she asked. Georgie looked round to see that there was no one within hearing.
The first edition is of 1854, and was published at a time of general excitement about 'table-turning' and 'spirit-rapping, an excitement which only old people remember, and which it is amazing to read about. Modern spirit-rapping, of which table-turning is a branch, began, as we know, in 1847-48.
One of his faults probably was the thing roughly called prejudice. On the question, for example, of table-turning and psychic phenomena he was in a certain degree fierce and irrational. He was not indeed, as we shall see when we come to study "Sludge the Medium," exactly prejudiced against spiritualism. But he was beyond all question stubbornly prejudiced against spiritualists.
Bridgeman, who seemed to be somewhat confused, and whose manner grew increasingly vague as the evening wore on, now said to those nearest to her, "There are fifteen tables set out yes, set out, in the green boudoir." "Bedad!" remarked an Irish colonel, "then it's meself'll enjoy a good rubber." "For table-turning," added Mrs. Bridgeman. "Materialisation in the same room after supper. Mr.
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